Understood Quotes
[Costa knows how revolutions work.] I fully understood when I started this thing... that if it was successful, there'd be many fathers, and if it failed, I would be the one who failed.
- Ted Costa
[Bloom experienced some of his character's emotions while exploring America's heartland.] I've been to big cities of America, but I never really understood what they meant when they said the Heartland of America... Making this movie and going to locations like Oklahoma City, Memphis, and standing on a beautiful bridge over a river in Arkansas was like, wow.
- Orlando Bloom
[After yesterday's crash in the Tour de Rijke, Quick.Step's Tom Boonen managed to train for around 100 kilometres on Sunday morning.] This morning I woke up a little bit worried about the potential consequences of yesterday's fall during the G.P. De Rijke, where I hurt my knee... Fortunately the knee was not swollen. When I started to ride my bike, I understood that the problem was not serious as I feared. I trained for around 100 kilometres without problems, forcing and doing some tests on the knee. Tomorrow I will do a long training ride and then Wednesday, as scheduled, I will fly to Granada. In the Tour de France I was unlucky, yesterday not.
- Tom Boonen
[According to a recent leaked memo marked] Secret: U.K. Eyes Only ... Given that the government has previously and firmly indicated that setting a date for possible withdrawal or drawing down could endanger our troops on the ground in Iraq, and given that this allegedly leaked memo speculates on possible dates for such action, the government should urgently clarify the situation to ensure that it is understood that our troops will remain in Iraq until our tasks there are completed.
- John Reid
. . . That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight . . . that's what I have to go into before all my work is misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon . . .
- William Gaddis
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